The concept of smart specialization has rapidly acquired a central position in European policy and academic circles. It raises interesting challenges for the regional studies agenda. First, smart specialization is about not only policy formulation, implementation and evaluation but also pooling scattered resources, competencies and powers to serve both shared and individual ambitions. Thus, policy formulation and implementation need to be seen in a new light. Second, when smart specialization is seen as one of the platforms for aligning several actors to boost regional economic development, the need to understand agency in its multiplicity emerges as central. This paper argues that to achieve truly transformative smart specialization strate...
The paper aims at investigating how EU Regions incorporated the place-based approach (Barca, 2009) t...
This article involves a conceptual evaluation of a large-scale innovation policy experiment—so-calle...
The paper discusses the origins and emerging ideas of smart specialization, and in particular its tr...
This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional innovati...
NoneThis chapter analyses the main issues and challenges of smart specialization in the European pol...
The introduction of smart specialization (S3) as a fundamental pillar of the 2014 reform of the EU c...
International audienceThe operationalization of smart specialization policy has been rather limited ...
This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional innovati...
The paper discusses the origins and emerging ideas of smart specialization, and in particular its tr...
Launched in 2008 by the K4G (Knowledge for Growth) Expert Group at the request of Janez Potočnik, th...
This chapter analyzes the situation of German regions making sense of the seeming paradox that despi...
This chapter provides conceptual and empirical foundations for smart specialization, a policy approa...
The Europe 2020 strategy promoted the concept of smart specialization as the future for regional dev...
Recent EU policies, prompted by the European Commission, revolve around the word \u201csmart\u201d a...
The introduction of smart specialization (S3) as a fundamental pillar of the 2014 reform of the EU c...
The paper aims at investigating how EU Regions incorporated the place-based approach (Barca, 2009) t...
This article involves a conceptual evaluation of a large-scale innovation policy experiment—so-calle...
The paper discusses the origins and emerging ideas of smart specialization, and in particular its tr...
This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional innovati...
NoneThis chapter analyses the main issues and challenges of smart specialization in the European pol...
The introduction of smart specialization (S3) as a fundamental pillar of the 2014 reform of the EU c...
International audienceThe operationalization of smart specialization policy has been rather limited ...
This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional innovati...
The paper discusses the origins and emerging ideas of smart specialization, and in particular its tr...
Launched in 2008 by the K4G (Knowledge for Growth) Expert Group at the request of Janez Potočnik, th...
This chapter analyzes the situation of German regions making sense of the seeming paradox that despi...
This chapter provides conceptual and empirical foundations for smart specialization, a policy approa...
The Europe 2020 strategy promoted the concept of smart specialization as the future for regional dev...
Recent EU policies, prompted by the European Commission, revolve around the word \u201csmart\u201d a...
The introduction of smart specialization (S3) as a fundamental pillar of the 2014 reform of the EU c...
The paper aims at investigating how EU Regions incorporated the place-based approach (Barca, 2009) t...
This article involves a conceptual evaluation of a large-scale innovation policy experiment—so-calle...
The paper discusses the origins and emerging ideas of smart specialization, and in particular its tr...